You must set a valid destination for backups

Mark Van Roten

• January 21, 2018 16:10

We are seeing "Bailing out.. you must set a valid destination for backups" intermittently. I just went through the logs and the issue appears to be with disk space. We use a remote destination and do not "Retain backups in the default backup directory". So it creates the zip file locally, then places in transfer queue and when transfer succeeds it removes the local zip. However it does not wait for the transfer to complete before moving onto creating the zip for next account. So for example. Sever has 50G free for /backup (local Default Backup Directory) acct1.tar.gz is created and is 50G Then queuing transport of file acct1.tar.gz Next checking backup for acct2 Bailing out.. you must set a valid destination for backups Next checking backup for acct3....acct50 all error out Bailing out.. you must set a valid destination for backups Then eventually transfer of acct1.tar.gz completes and file is removed freeing up 50G Next checking backup for acct51 and destination is valid again now that space is avilable. Queuing transport of file: acct51.tar.gz So the issue is that it does not wait for the transfer to complete and instead errors out if it cannot create consecutive zip file(s) due to lack of disk space.

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 22, 2018 16:23

  Hello, There's a feature request open for what you are seeking at: Remote FTP in the new backup system should pack and upload one file at a time In the meantime, you'd need to increase the available disk space on the local cPanel server, exclude files for backup from accounts using large amounts of data, or use a remote rsync destination with incremental backups. Thank you.

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  hughesmotors

  • January 25, 2018 18:48

  Thank you just had the same problem

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